Quick Definition
Isailpast
Strong's Definition
to sail near
Derivation: from G3844 (παρά) and G4126 (πλέω);
KJV Usage: sail by
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παραπλέω: 1 aorist infinitive παραπλεῦσαι; to sail by, sail past, (παρά, IV. 1): with an accusative of place, Act_20:16. (Thucydides 2, 25; Xenophon, anab. 6, 2, 1; Hell. 1, 3, 3; Plato, Phaedr., p. 259 a.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παραπλέω parapleō 1x
to sail by or past a place, Act_20:16
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* παρα -πλέω ,
to sail by or past : c . acc , Act_20:16 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παραπλέω [page 489]
This NT ἅπ .εἰρ . = sail past ( Act_20:16 ) is found in P Petr II. 45 ii. 2 (B.C. 246) παραπλεύσαντες εἰς ὅλους τοὺς [. . . . .]υς ἀ [νέ ]λαβον . . . . [In P Lond 854 .5 (i/ii A.D.) (= III. p. 206, Selections , p. 70) Wilcken ( Archiv iv. p. 554) now reads παρεπο [ιησ ]άμην for the editors παρεπ [λευσ ]άμην .] For the subst. see P Oxy III. 525 .1 (early ii/A.D.) ὁ παράπλους τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου ὀχληρότατός ἐστιν , the voyage past the Antaeopolite nome is most troublesome.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
παραπλέω ionic πλώω fut. -πλεύσομαι fut. -οῦμαι epic aor2 παρέπλων [Etym: epic aor2 παρέπλων as if from a Verb in μι] "to sail by or past", absol., οἴη δὴ κείνῃ γε παρέπλω Ἀργώ was the only ship that "sailed past or through" that way, Od. ; ἐν χρῷ παραπλέοντες "sailing past" so as to shave closely, Thuc. "to sail along the coast", c. acc. loci, of persons making a "coasting" voyage, Hdt.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρα-πλέω
to sail by or past: with accusative, Act.20:16.†
(AS)